A civilian driver crashed into a City of Pittsburgh garage in the Strip District on Tuesday morning, reversing through a closed garage door and becoming stuck beneath a hoist inside the facility. The driver was freed by first responders, taken to a hospital, and reported to be in stable condition.
The crash happened around 8:45 a.m. at a city garage off Eazor Square, according to WPXI. The outlet reported that the vehicle reversed straight through the closed garage door before coming to rest wedged beneath a hoist, a detail a public safety official confirmed to the station.
An employee who had been working beneath that same hoist avoided being struck by the incoming vehicle, per the report. The civilian driver, meanwhile, was left stuck inside the car until crews could free them.
Driver Freed and Taken to Hospital
First responders worked to free the trapped driver and transported them to a hospital following the crash, the station's report notes. The driver was reported to be stable afterward. No further details on the driver's identity or specific injuries were included in the reporting.
The circumstances that led the vehicle to reverse through the closed door have not been disclosed, and the incident remains under investigation, according to the same account.
Latest in a String of Pittsburgh Garage Crashes
The Eazor Square incident adds to a recent run of vehicle crashes into parking structures around Pittsburgh. In January 2025, a driver lost control and crashed into a garage in the city's Point Breeze neighborhood, as WPXI reported at the time. Months later, in November 2025, part of a vehicle was left hanging out of a Pittsburgh hospital parking garage after it crashed through a concrete barrier, the station also reported.
A separate crash in December 2025 left a man critically injured after his vehicle struck a parking garage near Chatham Tower on Fifth Avenue and caught fire, according to CBS Pittsburgh. No link between that incident and Tuesday's Strip District crash has been established.
Details on the extent of damage to the city garage, the hoist, or the vehicle involved in Tuesday's crash have not been released. The investigation into what caused the driver to reverse through the closed door remains ongoing.
